Pretty sure that’s a gimmick poster, like the one that pretends to be George Washington.

“While the field has diversified, both racially and from a gender perspective, over the last five years with the inclusion of male, queer, and trans cheerleaders, NFL cheerleading is still widely associated with a sexed-up, cis women army of dancers on the sidelines.”

Interestingly, there were people that wanted to “export” revolution immediately after independence, to whom Jefferson was sympathetic before and during his presidency, so it wasn’t entirely off the table, though it never really went anywhere. Washington, however, was firmly opposed to the idea. Historians have argued…

You’re going to need to clarify why you think this is significant.

Devolving from the wholly original snark of “Shit, I didn’t know you spoke for every single patient! Why didn’t you say that up top”

Love it.

Tell me you have no idea how medical specialists work without telling me you have no idea how medical specialists work.

“Many medical workers already aren’t going to get this holiday, by your own admission.”

Pretty sure most people in Britain are quite happy to have this holiday, whatever their feelings about the Monarchy. Which means the best solution, if avoiding patient disruption is paramount, is “don’t give NHS staff this holiday.” Health care workers should not be rhetorical hostages to their patients. Hate the…

So, it wasn’t an impromptu holiday, hospitals were not closed and the biggest complaint anyone can make is that there was some inconvenience in that non-urgent appointments needed to be rescheduled, a thing that has to happen all the time under normal conditions.

Learn what impromptu (and ad hoc, for that matter) means, that would help this conversation. It’s doesn’t mean “not previously scheduled.” Britain has been planning for this day for years. With that previous preparation, and an 11 day lead time, all of the people complaining about having to have a non-urgent…

Some people might consider having their appointments moved to be a big deal. Who cares? The world does not revolve around their anxieties.

I was not claiming that my experience is the same as everyone else’s. I was saying that chemo appointments are rescheduled all the time, for all sorts of reasons, because it not emergency treatment. When a treatment is urgent, it gets done.

So, no response to the thing I said in the second paragraph, but snark about something I didn’t say in the first. We done?

I’ve have chemotherapy appointments rescheduled. It’s not that big a deal.

Hospitals are not closing for the Queen’s funeral. Emergency services are still operating, intensive care is still operating, babies are being born and the bedridden being cared for. Some appointments got rescheduled.

The point in both cases is that “I don’t like the Queen, so having a holiday in her honor is bad, so I’ll hold up cancer patients as a reason to not do that” isn’t much different than the typical “I don’t like unions advocating for themselves, so I’ll hold up cancer patients as a reason to not do that.”

What a coincidence, I was just thinking about how all the handwringing over the cancelled NHS appointments because of the Queen’s funeral sounds exactly like the disingenuous handwringing apologists for management vomit up whenever there’s a labor action of this sort. It’s point scoring for politics whichever side is…

Well, I guess the NHS shouldn’t get the day off then.

Holidays are good, actually.